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I’m not sure who spoke to whom, or who has what on someone high up at Panasonic, but Samy’s in Los Angeles is the only store in the entire country with the GH3.

Michael Britt just sent me the picture below to make me jealous. Apparently these boxes came straight from Japan and we’re driven from LAX to Samy’s headquarters on Fairfax Ave. Had I stayed an extra day in LA this week, I’d be playing with the new GH3 right now. But no, I had to get on a plane, so Britt is rubbing it in.

Maybe you got a new TV for Christmas. Or maybe you just got one recently. Maybe you are thinking of buying one. Whichever is the case, take heed: your TV will try very, very hard to make whatever movies you watch on it look not just bad, but aggressively, satanically, puppy-drowningly bad.

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These days, any TV you are likely to buy, will, by default, have technology enabled that completely changes the emotional quality of the movies you watch. This is a cinematic disaster.

Talking head public service announcements (PSAs) are difficult to do. The line between contrived cheese and compelling content is hair thin. But when it’s done right it works well.

In this PSA about an indestructible soccer ball, the writer and the director find a good balance between the celebrity, the inventor and the story. I’m not a huge fan of the cut aways to the profile footage, but I get why it was done. Overall the PSA got me, and that’s what counts.

All that said, the indestructible soccer ball is a brilliant invention. And the charitable action you trigger when you buy one is righteous. PCN is ordering an official office ball so Michael and I can cause havoc and chaos by putting this thing through a few windows. We hope that you’ll get one for yourselves.